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History and Concept of Manual Therapy (도수치료의 역사 및 개념)

  • Moon, Sang Ho;Lee, Song;Bae, Dae Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
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    • v.55 no.1
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2020
  • Manual therapy has undergone parallel development throughout many parts of the world dating back to ancient times for at least 2,500 years. The earliest historical reference to the practice of manual therapy in Greece, dates back to 400 B.C. Over the centuries, manual medicines have fallen in and out of favor with the medical profession. To truly understand the principle, it is important to know that manual therapy was initially the mainstay of the three leading alternative health care systems, osteopathy, chiropractic, and most notably physical therapy. These were all founded in the latter part of the 19th century in response to the shortcomings in allopathic medicine. Although it has been around for a long time and has been used all over the world, there are a few reports on manual therapy treatment, and most papers provided a low level of evidence. Despite the controversies over manual therapy, its use appears to be increasing gradually. This article reviews the history of manual therapy from ancient times to the present including Korean history, discusses the current state of knowledge on manual therapy, and informs physicians who manage musculoskeletal pain.

The Relationship between Nurses Perception of the Elderly and Communication (간호사의 노인에 대한 인식과 의사소통과의 관계)

  • Yu, Myeonghwan;Kang, Jisook
    • 한국노년학
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.455-468
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    • 2021
  • This study was performed to utilize for foundation data of research related nursing communication and developing nursing intervention by examining the relationship between nurses' perception of the elderly and communication. This study is a descriptive research using a set of questionnaires that examines the relationship between nurses who provide care to the elderly by confirming their perception of the elderly, communication difficulties with the elderly, communication behavior, and satisfaction with communication. After IRB approval, data were collected either face-to-face survey or by online survey. A total of 292 nurses participated in this study. The collected data were analyzed as descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA, Duncan test and Pearson's Correlation Coefficients, Multiple Regression Analysis by using SPSS/WIN 26 program. As a result, a significant correlation was identified between perception of the elderly and communication disorders, communication behavior, and communication satisfaction. We found that nurses who had more positive perceptions about the elderly had less communication disorders, better communication behaviors, and higher communication satisfaction with the elderly. From this result, we suggest that nurses caring for the elderly should receive education on communication methods with elderly to improve their perception. Furthermore, we suggest future studies to improve nurse's perception of the elderly and communication.

Factors Affecting Fear of Dementia of Aged in the Community (지역사회 거주 노인의 치매두려움에 미치는 영향 요인)

  • Kim, Min Suk;Kim, Jeong Sun
    • 한국노년학
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.179-196
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the factors impacting fear of dementia, targeting the aged in the community. The study targeted 258 seniors aged 65 or older attending the senior college or using the senior citizen community center in areas of Jeollannam-do. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and a stepwise multiple linear regression. Fear of dementia of the aged showed significant positive correlations with dementia anxiety, and aged anxiety. dementia anxiety, aged anxiety, dementia experience, use of a hearing aid, religion, level of dementia interest were significant predictors influencing fear of dementia of aged in the community, and these variables accounted for 37.2% of the variance. Therefore, this study suggests that in order to p revent fear of dementia of aged people in the primary health care setting, it is necessary to have a nurse's assessment on the factors affecting dementia as well as a multi-faceted education strategy for proper recognition of dementia.

Metabolic Diseases Classification Models according to Food Consumption using Machine Learning (머신러닝을 활용한 식품소비에 따른 대사성 질환 분류 모델)

  • Hong, Jun Ho;Lee, Kyung Hee;Lee, Hye Rim;Cheong, Hwan Suk;Cho, Wan-Sup
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.354-360
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    • 2022
  • Metabolic disease is a disease with a prevalence of 26% in Korean, and has three of the five states of abdominal obesity, hypertension, hunger glycemic disorder, high neutral fat, and low HDL cholesterol at the same time. This paper links the consumer panel data of the Rural Development Agency(RDA) and the medical care data of the National Health Insurance Service(NHIS) to generate a classification model that can be divided into a metabolic disease group and a control group through food consumption characteristics, and attempts to compare the differences. Many existing domestic and foreign studies related to metabolic diseases and food consumption characteristics are disease correlation studies of specific food groups and specific ingredients, and this paper is logistic considering all food groups included in the general diet. We created a classification model using regression, a decision tree-based classification model, and a classification model using XGBoost. Of the three models, the high-precision model is the XGBoost classification model, but the accuracy was not high at less than 0.7. As a future study, it is necessary to extend the observation period for food consumption in the patient group to more than 5 years and to study the metabolic disease classification model after converting the food consumed into nutritional characteristics.

Effects of Blood Flow Restriction Exercise on the Alacrity and Balanced Capacity of Female University Students in Their 20s for Health-Care Increase (헬스케어증진을 위한 하지혈류제한운동이 20대 여대생의 순발력과 균형에 미치는 영향)

  • Seo, Tae-Hwa;Kim, Eun-Ho;Jeong, Yeon-Woo
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.333-340
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to examine the effects of squat exercise on the vitality and balanced capacity of female university students in their 20s with lower blood flow control. This study selected 40 volunteers from normal adult women in their twenties. Blood flow restriction used Blood Flow Restriction bands (BFR bands). The application method was to put on a blood flow restriction belt in the lower leg of the restricted blood flow area and put 120 mmHg of pressure to limit blood flow while the subject was standing comfortably. It was found that there were statistically significant differences in Height, Maximum concentric power and Take off speed between two groups(p<.05), There was statistically unimportant differences in foot scan between two groups(p>.05). This study found that to find out the changes in balance and alacrity, the experimental and control groups were divided into two groups. In conclusion, there were no significant differences in balance capability, but there were significant differences over time in net power.

Comparison of Ventilation Effects by Mask Type for Proper Health Care of Respiratory Emergency Patients (호흡응급환자의 적절한 헬스케어를 위한 마스크 유형별 환기효과 비교)

  • Kim, Tae-Hyun;Park, Si-Eun
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.14 no.7
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    • pp.477-485
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    • 2020
  • This study is a random allocation similar experimental study to compare and analyze the difference in BVM (Bag-Valve-Mask) ventilation volume according to the characteristics of the rescuer's hand and the type of mask using a standardized mannequin. To this end, the Basic Life Resuscitation Education Center of D University in gwangju. Recruiting 39 students who have completed the basic resuscitation course for emergency medical personnel and the Korean-style specialized cardiac rescue course, In addition to measuring the physical characteristics of the hand, the average amount of ventilation per minute using a bag-mask was measured and analyzed. As a result, the type of mask that was not most affected by the characteristics of the hand and provided adequate Minute Ventilation was the soft type (tube, silicone) mask. On the other hard (tube, silicone) masks were found to be unsuitable for general use as they were greatly affected by the characteristics of workers' hands. COVID-19 is currently increasing the risk of transmission to paramedics and patients. Considering this situation, the universal use of a semi-permanent hard-type mask, which is disadvantageous not only for preventing infection but also for proper ventilation, should be avoided. In addition to the ease of use, it should be actively utilized in the field by supplying a soft type mask that can provide stable ventilation even with 'predominance recognition' and proper ventilation.

Associativity Among OTPF and the International Classification of Function, Disorder and Health : Focusing on the Activity and Participation Centered on Life Care (OTPF와 국제 기능·장애·건강 분류간의 연관성 : 라이프케어 중심의 활동과 참여 관점으로)

  • Bae, Seong-Hwan;Jang, Yeon-Sig;Kim, Hee-Dong;Baek, Ji-Young
    • Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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    • v.14 no.7
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    • pp.623-632
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this research was to identify the associativity between OTPF and ICF, present the relevance and difference of theoretical concept of OTPF-3 and ICF regarding of the participation and to identify if ICF can explain the professional area of occupational therapy. For this purpose, 4 experts of occupational therapy have made a comparative analysis of the subclassification codes of OTPF-3's work area subsection and of ICF activity and participation. As a result, connecting the most subclassification codes of OTPF-3's work area subsection and of ICF activity and participation, they demonstrated the conceptual similarity and difference. Through this, it is judged to explain the area of occupational therapy with ICF for non-expert and other experts, but it is considered to have limitation to the communication between the experts of occupational therapy. In order to overcome the difference between OTPF and ICF, it would be necessary to have much more researches of comparing widely OTPF and ICF from the perspective of occupational therapy.

Pharmacological Effect of Decursin, Decursinol Angelate, and Decursinol Derived from Angelica gigas Nakai (참당귀(Angelica gigas Nakai) 유래 decursin, decursinol 그리고 decursinol angelate의 약리 효과)

  • Kang, Jae Seon
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.31 no.12
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    • pp.1128-1141
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    • 2021
  • 'Angelica' is one of the most traditionally consumed medicinal herbs around Northeast Asia including Korea for treatments of various diseases or health care purposes like hematopoiesis, blood circulation for women, sedative, analgesic, and a tonic medicine etc. Angelica gigas Nakai, a Korean native species of Angelica, is clearly different from the others in containing a high concentration of active ingredients like pyranocoumarines including decursin, decursinol, and decursinol angelate. These compounds have various kinds of positive effects such as anti-tumor activity including the precaution of neutropenia occurred during anticancer drug administration, improvements of metabolic disorders, menstrual irregularity, impairment of renal function, respiration improvement, cognition-enhancement, anti-inflammatory effect, anti-oxidative effect, enhancing fertility and so forth. Thus it implies incredible potentialities in future development for foods and drugs. However, certain purity-related qualities and/or overdose in food products can cause side effects like toxicities; therefore, their safety profiles should also be considered. This review focuses on the positive and negative effects of three pyranocoumarines in Angelica gigas Nakai and some possibilities and considerations for future food and drug products development.

Implementation of Real-time Sedentary Posture Correction Cushion Using Capacitive Pressure Sensor Based on Conductive Textile

  • Kim, HoonKi;Park, HyungSoo;Oh, JiWon
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.153-161
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    • 2022
  • Physical activities are decreasing and sitting time is increasing due to the automation, smartization, and intelligence of necessary household items throughout daily life. Recent healthcare studies have reported that the likelihood of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and early death increases in proportion to sitting time. In this paper, we develop a sitting posture correction cushion in real time using capacitive pressure sensor based on conductive textile. It develops a pressure sensor using conductive textile, a key component of the posture correction cushion, and develops a low power-based pressure measurement circuit. It provides a function to transmit sensor values measured in real time to smartphones using BLE short-range wireless communication on the posture correction cushion, and develops a mobile application to check the condition of the sitting posture through these sensor values. In the mobile app, you can visualize your sitting posture and check it in real time, and if you keep it in the wrong posture for a certain period of time, you can notify it through an alarm. In addition, it is possible to visualize the sitting time and posture accuracy in a graph. Through the correction cushion in this paper, we experiment with how effective it is to correct the user's posture by recognizing the user's sitting posture, and present differentiation and excellence compared to other product.

A Comparative study on smoothing techniques for performance improvement of LSTM learning model

  • Tae-Jin, Park;Gab-Sig, Sim
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.17-26
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, we propose a several smoothing techniques are compared and applied to increase the application of the LSTM-based learning model and its effectiveness. The applied smoothing technique is Savitky-Golay, exponential smoothing, and weighted moving average. Through this study, the LSTM algorithm with the Savitky-Golay filter applied in the preprocessing process showed significant best results in prediction performance than the result value shown when applying the LSTM model to Bitcoin data. To confirm the predictive performance results, the learning loss rate and verification loss rate according to the Savitzky-Golay LSTM model were compared with the case of LSTM used to remove complex factors from Bitcoin price prediction, and experimented with an average value of 20 times to increase its reliability. As a result, values of (3.0556, 0.00005) and (1.4659, 0.00002) could be obtained. As a result, since crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin have more volatility than stocks, noise was removed by applying the Savitzky-Golay in the data preprocessing process, and the data after preprocessing were obtained the most-significant to increase the Bitcoin prediction rate through LSTM neural network learning.